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Appalachian Odyssey
A 28-Year Hike on America's Trail
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Like many hikers who’ve completed the Appalachian Trail, Jeffrey Ryan didn’t do it in one long through-hike. Grabbing weekends here and days off there, it took Jeffrey twenty-eight years to finish the trail, and along the way he learned much about himself and made many new friends, including his...
by Alexander Inkson McConnochie
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
by C. E. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
“Rock Climbing in Lakeland” is a classic guide to rock-climbing in the Lake District, England. It includes interesting information about this beautiful part of the country, as well as detailed instructions on how to prepare and where to go for a good day's climbing. This book is highly recommended...
My Dream Hunt in Alaska
With God on the Adventure of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Experience the Thrill of a Lifetime!
In the spring of 2015, outdoorsman Steve Chapman packed his gear bags and a high-powered rifle and headed to a part of the world he had never hunted but had always dreamed he would. The place was Alaska and the game was the giant brown bear.
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Stories from Elsewhere
Solo Travels on Two and Three Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In 1995, Carla King takes a job as a test rider for a company who wants to import a Russian sidecar motorcycle for the American market, thus spending four months breaking down in small towns all around the USA and becoming an expert mechanic. In 1998, she sets off on an illegal journey across China...
by Joe Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when...
by Alex Honnold
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan—to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear—completing...
Dead Lucky
Life After Death on Mount Everest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Lincoln Hall's breathtaking account of surviving a night in Everest's "death zone."
Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25, 2006, he died on Everest. Indeed, Hall attempted to climb the mountain during a deadly season in which eleven people perished. And he was, in...
by Bernadette McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
In August, 2005, Tomaz Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 5900 metres on the formidable Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat. He had been attempting a new route, directly up the middle of the highest mountain face in the world - solo. After six days he was out of food, almost out of fuel and frequently...
Everest the Cruel Way
Climbing Mount Everest at its hardest: the 1980 winter attempt on the infamous west ridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt...
The Endless Knot
K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
'A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.' Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal Acclaimed as one of the most powerful accounts of mountain adventure and tragedy ever written, The Endless Knot is a harrowing account of the 1986 K2 disaster. A rare first-hand account from a survivor...
One Day as a Tiger
Alex MacIntyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
A revelatory and poignant memoir showing mountaineering at its extraordinary best and tragic worst as it draws an unforgettable picture of a dazzling, argumentative and exuberant climbing legend.
In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck...
by Simon Yates
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Simon Yates, author of Against the Wall, takes us back to his early years as a climber - the escapades and excitement of a young life lived on the edge and for the moment, when experience was all-important and dramatic achievements and failures came as naturally as the hair-raising risks themselves.
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The Villain
The Life of Don Whillans
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other formidable achievements lies a tough, recalcitrant...